Residents of Aba have condemned Monday invasion of the
police area command by soldiers lamenting that those who ought to unite and
tackle the spate of kidnapping and other crimes in the state were involved in a
show of shame.
Hell was let loose in Aba, Abia State when soldiers invaded
the area command of the police in a Gestapo style and wounded two police
officers.
The rampaging soldiers said to be over 50, stormed the police
command in an Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) and over five Hilux vans, and
did not spear civilians within the neighbourhood of the area command
headquarters. They were said to have cordoned off the area and forced
businesses to close as people around scampered for safety.
Daily Sun gathered that trouble started at about 6.15pm on
that day, when a police officer attached to the area command went to purchase
some drugs with his pregnant wife, also a serving police officer and parked his
car in front of the drugs store but a man who was later identified as an army
captain ordered the police officer to remove his vehicle from where it was
parked.
The cop was reported to have explained to the soldier that
he was a police officer and that he would move as soon as he buys the drugs but
the soldier refused and during an argument, the army captain allegedly slapped
the policeman and he retaliated.
Other soldiers, who were inside the army van, came down with
their guns and threatened to kill the policeman, but for the wife who insisted
they should kill her first.
Although passersby, who had gathered to watch the ugly
episode, later made peace between the two men, soldiers, who were said to have
been alerted by the captain, stormed the police area command.
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